This monograph investigates the organization and capabilities of the Army aviation support battalion and answers the question: Can the proposed aviation support battalion provide single source logistics to the divisional aviation brigade in...
This monograph investigates the Mexican War for evidence of modern operational art and answers the question: Does the Mexican War of 1846-1848 hold a unique place in the evolution of modern operational art and, if so, where? The Mexican War...
This monograph examines Claire Lee Chennault as a military theorist and campaign planner. It inquires whether Chennault's evolution of a theory of war assisted his planning the China-Burma-India Campaign during World War II. The monograph is...
Ethnic conflict is emerging as the dominant threat to world peace in the post-World War II security environment. The scope and frequency of ethnic conflict threatens world stability and could infringe on U.S. vital interests. The U.S. and the UN...
This monograph discusses offensive indirect fire tactics and their relationship to extreme fear responses. It examines the nature and causes of a specific, immediate, and debilitating fear response called the Combat Stress Reaction (CSR)....
This monograph explores the similarity between the nuclear battlefield of the Pentomic Era and the nonlinear battlefield described in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-5 AirLand Operations: A Concept for the Evolution of AirLand Battle for the Strategic Army of...
This monograph examines the question can modern metaphors, based on late twentieth century nonlinear scientific thought, better explain concepts described by Clausewitz, using early nineteenth century linear scientific thought. Clausewitz...
This monograph examines a new military mission--peace-enforcement. It does so through a five part strategic process that links national interests and national security strategy to tactical operations. It asserts that US national security strategy...
This monograph discusses the change in the use of mass by U.S. operational artists. As GEN Donn Starry observed, use of military force is based on certain operational concepts. If this is true and the traditional US concept of mass is in limited by...
This monograph examines several definitions for the operational fires concept, and traces the theoretical underpinnings of operational fires from both Russian operational theory and airpower theories. The monograph then examines historical examples...
This paper analyzes the difference between replacing the Browning rifle and service rifle with the Pedersen semi-automatic rifle and advantages to the infantry of using it.
This paper discusses camouflage requirements and which of those duties were assigned to the officers. A comparison with the French and British Army camouflage operations is included. The author adds personal correspondence covering his research...
This paper discusses border service under conditions not involving the application of the neutrality laws, with particular reference to situations where shots are fired into American territory across the international boundary, and to bandit raids...
A study of the military leadership exhibited by General Robert E. Lee before and after the death of Stonewall Jackson by comparing Lee's decisions in the major engagements before Jackson's death.
This paper discusses the beginning of signal communications and the trend of the military mind toward radio and the provisions and use of radio in the army.
This paper discusses the Air Corps with respect to the securing and training of the necessary personnel; the idea, development, manufacture, and delivery of materiel; and a combination of the two elements in operations.